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This newsletter will be the start of a serialisation of a chapter
from the new updated version of my book. The new title of
my book will be: The Astrological Karma of the USA.
The chapter I will be serialising is about the Astrological
birthchart of George W. Bush. I will follow with a series
based on the Astrological birthchart of John F. Kerry. The
book itself should be available in May.
The Astrological
Karma of
George W. Bush
President
George W. Bush, perhaps more than any other in recent history, has
polarized our nation into nearly 50/50 opposed camps. Those who approve
of George W. Bush and all or most of what he has done and those who
approve of little or nothing of what he has done. This polarity in
the national psyche reflects what the U.S. is experiencing now in
its own Astrological birthchart as a nation. Examination of Bush’s
Astrological birthchart reveals that he and our nation are both confronting
similar challenges of identifying with our self image at the expense
of our true natures and immersing ourselves in Neptunian illusion
and deception at the expense of our compassion.
In this discussion of the Astrological birthchart of George W. Bush I will
first look at him as an individual. Behind the social persona of every individual
there is a matrix of factors which influence the choices and decisions we each
make in the performance of our social obligations. The Astrological factors
evident in the birthchart and reflected in the formative experiences in his
childhood and later life give a more comprehensive view of this man. I will
then review the influence of these factors and others on how George W. Bush
functions as President and conclude with the dangers I see ahead for George
W. Bush and our nation.
George
W. Bush is a Cancer. He thinks he is a Leo. He pretends that he is
an Aries. In his childhood he had to bear the influence of the sign
Libra. All in a manner of speaking. These are prominent basic Astrological
influences in the drama of George W. Bush’s life.
As stated earlier, the Sun in a birthchart represents your soul essence. It
is who you really are. George Bush has his Sun in Cancer, born on July 6 two
days after our own U.S. birthday of July 4th. This means that the soul essence
of George W. Bush has developed qualities of caring and nurturing in previous
lives. He would be a good man to represent ‘family values’ and
a traditional, patriotic stance. It is this Cancerian part of George Bush which
would resonate sincerely with his stated mission of ‘compassionate conservatism.’
I previously explained that the United States is not always in touch with the
caring, nurturing potential of its Sun in Cancer. Our nation often tends to
identify more with our self-righteous Sagittaritan self-image. Similarly, George
W. Bush’s Sun in Cancer qualities of caring and nurturing are often overwhelmed
by the smug superiority of his self image (Ascendant) which is Leo.
This sign as well as the Sign Aries, his projected image to the world (Midheaven),
are both feisty fire signs. Aries on the Midheaven will show a tendency to
present oneself as ‘headstrong, willful and dynamic’, with a tendency
to appear as ‘hot-headed.’
The self image of Bush is better understood by analyzing Hilarion’s description
of Leo Ascendant:
When the sign Leo rises, there will be a tendency for the
self-picture to be colored by the notions of elegance, specialness
and superiority. A proudness will often be felt internally....
The reason for giving this Ascendant to an individual is to
prompt him to think better of himself than he is in the habit
of doing when in incarnation. The rulership by the sun thus
lends to the individual certain bolstering influences in terms
of how he sees himself, which are intended to teach him not
to underestimate his own worth and not to feel inferior to
others.
So, the Leo Ascendant is given to an individual to bolster their self-esteem
as a counterforce to their own self-doubt. Thus George W. Bush’s self
image protects him against feeling inferior to others so as to appear stronger
that he is.
In addition to the Leo Ascendant, Bush has Mercury in Leo in the First House
close to the Ascendant, of which Hilarion says:
Mercury here [in Leo]......will aggravate feelings of pride,
superiority and arrogance. The thoughts will revolve ever and
only about the self, and the person’s life will seem
to him to be a magnificent play in which he himself is the
main actor, and has written all the parts. The main lesson
is to see others as whole persons in their own right, living
their own life-plays.
This Mercury is conjunct to Pluto in Bush’s chart, which indicates that
the soul’s tendencies for arrogance and self-absorption have been slated
for major transformation in this life. The dichotomy beween a caring, nurturing
father and an arrogant, smirking, party boy is a basic theme duly noted in
all of the biographies I have read about George W. Bush. In his own auto-biography, ‘A
Charge to Keep,’ Bush speaks in great detail about the reasons why he
refused to commute the death sentence of Karla Faye Tucker, a reformed murderer
turned Christian who had asked for the right to live so that she could aid
and counsel other young women in prison who had also been led down the path
of drugs and violence. She had appeals on her behalf coming from sources all
the way up to Pope John Paul himself.
George Bush explained that he did not commute the death sentence of Karla Fay
Tucker, while at the same time he did commute the death sentence of an unrepentant
serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas, because facts revealed that Lucas was innocent
in relation to the specific murder he was convicted of, whereas Karla Faye
Tucker had never professed innocence for what she did. He admits being heavy
of heart at the time. Indeed, his wife Laura said that she had never seen George
so anxious and that he was having difficulty falling asleep. After the execution,
however, a journalist asked Bush what Karla Faye’s response had been
when CNN’s Larry King had asked her what she would say to Governor Bush
if she had the opportunity. Bush mocked and mimicked Karla Faye by saying, ‘Please
don’t kill me,’ in a whimpering voice.
Which of these reactions is more truthful? That reported by Laura Bush, or
that by the journalist? Admittedly, George W. thought that his comments with
the journalist were off the record. I believe that Bush’s caring, emotional,
Cancerian Self was sincerely tortured by the death of Karla Fay Tucker on his
hands. His inability to access, own, and consistently express that caring emotional
side, however, is a major dilemma for him in this life. This is the same dilemma
faced by this great nation of ours.
Steffan Vanel
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